29. “Call together the archers against Babylon,all those who bend the bow.Encamp against her all around.Let none of it escape.Pay her back according to her work.According to all that she has done, do to her;for she has been proud against the Lord,against the Holy One of Israel.
30. Therefore her young men will fall in her streets.All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says the Lord.
31. “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, the Lord of Hosts;“for your day has come,the time that I will visit you.
32. The proud one will stumble and fall,and no one will raise him up.I will kindle a fire in his cities,and it will devour all who are around him.”
33. the Lord of Hosts says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together.All who took them captive hold them fast.They refuse to let them go.
34. Their Redeemer is strong:the Lord of Hosts is his name.He will thoroughly plead their cause,that he may give rest to the earth,and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
35. “A sword is on the Kasdim,” says the Lord,“and on the inhabitants of Babylon,on her princes,and on her wise men.
36. A sword is on the boasters,and they will become fools.A sword is on her mighty men,and they will be dismayed.
37. A sword is on their horses,on their chariots,and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her;and they will become as women.A sword is on her treasures,and they will be robbed.
38. A drought is on her waters,and they will be dried up;for it is a land of engraved images,and they are mad over idols.
39. Therefore the wild animals of the desertwith the wolves will dwell there.The ostriches will dwell therein;and it will be inhabited no more forever;neither will it be lived in from generation to generation.
40. As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbour cities,” says the Lord,“so no man will dwell there,neither will any son of man live therein.
41. “Behold, a people comes from the north;and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
42. They take up bow and spear.They are cruel, and have no mercy.Their voice roars like the sea.They ride on horses,everyone set in array,as a man to the battle,against you, daughter of Babylon.
43. The king of Babylon has heard the news of them,and his hands become feeble:anguish has taken hold of him,pains as of a woman in labour.
44. Behold, the enemy will come up like a lionfrom the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation;for I will suddenly make them run away from it.Whoever is chosen,I will appoint him over it;for who is like me?Who will appoint me a time?Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
45. Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord,that he has taken against Babylon;and his purposes,that he has purposed against the land of the Kasdim:Surely they will drag them away,even the little ones of the flock.Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.
46. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles;and the cry is heard amongst the nations.